Improvement in check-rein guides for bridles



B. A. DENNI-s.v Check-E8111 Guides for Brid'les.

No..v 214,554. Patented Apri l 22, 1879 ATTEST. w INVENTDH.

MPETERS. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHISNGTON D O ;UNITEDSTATES PA'rFNrOFFICE.

' 1 BENJAMIN A, Dennis, on PAWTUOKET, ssienon To ouAnLns H. Dow,

OF PROVIDENOE, RHODE ISLAND.

IMPROVEMET I'N CHECK-REIN GUIDES F OR BRIDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 21 4.5511, (lated April22, 1879; application filed August l, 1877.

To all 'whom it may concera:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN A. DENNIS, of Pawtucket', in the count-y ofProvidence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Overdraw Check-Reni Guides'for Bridles; and lfidohereby declare that the following specification, taken in connectionwith the drawin gs furnished and forming a part of the same, is a clear,true, and complete description thereof. p Heretofore leather loops havebeen combined with and mounted upon the crown-band's of bridles for usewith an overdraw check-reiu, but these do not hold the reins fromcontact with the adjacent portions of the head of the horse, and more orless chafing results from their use. To obviate this, base -plates pro!vided with vertical standards have been de' vised for affording anelevated support for the check-rein. Some of these have been straight onthe upper ed ge from end to end, and rounded laterally for contact witha flat check-reiu, and others have been provided with circnlar aperturesfor the reception of a round check-rein. If either of this class be ofsufficient height to properly elevate the cheek-rein from the head ofthe horse, they are liable to tip forward or backward, and he retainedin'those positions by the angular bend inthe checlr-rein at its point ofcontact with the guide, said reins being usually so adjusted as to beunder considerable tension Vhen these standards are thus tipped backwardor forward, the reins are not maintained out of chafing contact, and,what is worse than this, one edge or the other of the base-platcs, orthe edge of the crown-band on which they are mounted, is pressed uponthe head of the horse, and speedily chafes it raw.

Now, the object of my invention is to attain the requisite height ofstandard, and obviate all liability of its tipping backward orforward;and my invention consists, mainly, in the combination,with a bridlecrown-band,of an overdraw check-rein guide-loop, composed of a doublestandard mounted on a base-plate, and provided with a pivoted bearing orseat for the check-rein between the sides of the standard,

whereby the standard -is prevented from tippin g to front or rea-r, andheld in that position by the angle of the check-rein. These pivotalbearings for the check-rein are preferably in the form of a roller; andas my guide-loops are I capable of being` readily attached without theaid of a saddler, my invention further consists in an overdrawcheck-rain guide-loop consisting of a base-plate adapted to be secureddate two double standards or frames, c, curved in the manner shown; or,as is preferable, each standard may be provided with its individualplate. The two' standards are connected at the top by a cross-bar,usually forined solidly with the standards. Each of these standards' orframes, with its roller e, constitutes a guideloop. The roller ismounted on an axis, i, which is parallel with the base-plate, and saidaxis is preferably a separate pin or rod, althrough it may be castsolidly with the roller; but when the pins are used the rollers may becast hollow, and their weight be thereby reduced to a minimum.

It will be seen that the upper surface of each roller is suflicientlyelevated above the lower surface of the crown-band to maintain thecheck-rein so far above the head of the horse that it cannot chafe, andthat the easily-turning roller, actin g as a pivotal point of contact Vwith the reiu, prevents the standard from tipping forward or backward,as before set forth.

I am well aware that roller-loops have heretofore been employed onstraps pendent from the Crown-band on each side for supporting sidecheck-reins, which, in use, are particularly liable to run to and fro inthe check-hook, and therefore run more or less through the roller-loops.Theseprior roller-loops are, however, of an entirely differentconstruction from those herein shown, and 'are incapable of being'mounted on the crown-band, because they have no base-plate which isparallel with the axis of the roller, and, so far as my knowledg'eextends, mine are the first which have that construction.

As heretofore applied, rollers in guide-loops for check-reins do notserve to prevent ehafing of the horse7s head, but nierely permit therein to run freely therein; but on the other hand the roller in my loopnot only perinits such limited free movement as is possible in anoverdraw check-rein longitudinally, but prevents the standard in whichit is mounted from tippin g to the front or the rear, thus not onlyassuring` the maintenance of the rein at a proper height above the headto prevent chafin g, but it also prevents the standards from being' sotippedand held in the angle of the check-rein at its bearing on theroller that the edge of the plate or the corresponding,` edge of thecrown-band will be presented in ehafing,` contact with the head of thehorse.

I'desire it to be distinctly understood that I herein make no claim,broadly, to two guideloops mounted on one base-plate but w What I doclaim is-- 1. The combination, with a bridle crownband, of an overdrawcheck-rein guide composed of a double standard' mounted on a baseplate,and a pivoted bearing` or seat for the check-rein between the sides ofthe standard,

substantially as described, whereby the stand- BENJAMIN A. DENNIS.

Witnesses: I

THos. P. BARNEFIELD, GEO. vWALTER BARNEFIELD..

